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Sad

adjective

(compar. sadder; superl. saddest)

Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness. "Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad"

Of things that make you feel sad. "She doesn't like sad movies" , "It was a very sad story" , "When I am dead, my dearest, / Sing no sad songs for me"

Bad; unfortunate. Synonyms: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sorry. "A lamentable decision" , "Her clothes were in sad shape" , "A sorry state of affairs"

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"Sad" Quotes from Famous Books

... word lately pronounced by Dr. Monygham—floated into her still and sad immobility. Incorrigible in his devotion to the great silver mine was the Senor Administrador! Incorrigible in his hard, determined service of the material interests to which he had pinned his faith in the triumph of order and justice. Poor boy! She had a clear vision of the grey hairs ...

— Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard • Joseph Conrad

... and make them wax and wane: So women, that, of all things made of nothing, 15 Are the most perfect idols of the moone, Or still-unwean'd sweet moon-calves with white faces, Not only are paterns of change to men, But as the tender moon-shine of their beauties Cleares or is cloudy, make men glad or sad. 20 So then they rule in men, not ...

— Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois • George Chapman

... the relatives of Napoleon were excluded from residing in the French territory. In the unhappy kingdom of Spain the execrable and impotent Ferdinand, impotent in all but cruelty, exercised the most unlimited powers of tyranny and oppression; a sad contrast to the comparatively mild and liberal Government of Joseph Buonaparte. In Spain, almost every man who had assisted Wellington to drive out the French, in fact, every avowed friend of civil and religious Liberty, were either ...

— Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. Volume 3 • Henry Hunt

... "I do believe it—almost always—except when I'm so sad that I can't believe anything. But even when I can't believe it, I know it's true—and I try to believe. You don't know how I try, Peter. Now take the letters to the post, and don't let's be sad any more. Courage, courage! That's ...

— The Railway Children • E. Nesbit

... Avenue into Benicia Street. This is the hour when the fly cedes to the mosquito, as the Tuscan poet says, and, as one may add, the frying grasshopper yields to the shrilly cricket in noisiness. The embrowning air rings with the sad music made by these innumerable little violinists, hid in all the gardens round, and the pedestrian feels a sinking of the spirits not to be accounted for upon the theory that the street is duller than the Avenue, for it ...

— Suburban Sketches • W.D. Howells

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